Riley v. Fitzgerald’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably 53 Cal. 3d 1180 - Penasquitos, Inc. v. Superior Court (1991), 191 Cal. App. 3d 605 - Clothesrigger, Inc. v. GTE Corp. (1987)
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Fahey v. Mallonee · 11 Cal. 3d 574 - Hurtado v. Superior Court · Ward v. Taggart · 22 Cal. 3d 157 - Offshore Rental Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Sax v. Votteler
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Arguable California interests are prevention of fraud by California residents and corporations against foreign residents and corporations or vindication of foreign claims. Texas has an interest in controlling actions, rights and liabilities of its domestic corporations and in the uniform regulation of affairs of business corporations created under the authority of Texas statutes. . . . We do not believe that California has greater interest in providing Texas residents — former shareholders in a dissolved Texas corporation — greater protection than Texas would afford them. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(a) A corporation which is dissolved nevertheless continues to exist for the purpose of winding up its affairs, prosecuting and defending actions by or against it and enabling it to collect and discharge obligations, dispose of and convey its property and collect and divide its assets, but not for the purpose of continuing business except so far as necessary for the winding up thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is settled law in California that the effect of corporate dissolution or expiration depends upon the law of its domicile, and a defunct foreign corporation has no greater capacity or higher standing to initiate or maintain an action in the forum state than it would have in its domiciliary state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.